Linky Goodness, April 16

Jupiter Research reports that Blended Search Increases Your Visibility. But what I get from the numbers is that you’re more likely to click on results in blended search than “siloed” search—even if the siloed search is in the exact media you’re looking for.

GoCompare was blacklisted from Google earlier this year. Hitwise takes a look at their recovery.

Google AdSense for Domains runs on some typosquatting and cybersquatting domains, it’s true. And now a federal court has ruled that Google can be sued over these domains. Will the ruling stand up?

If you’re like me, you’re the ‘M’ of a private, multinational espionage enterprise, and here’s the news you’ve been waiting for to communicate quickly with your operatives: BigString unveils self-destructing IM service. Allegedly, no computers are destroyed in the process.

That’s an interesting study as far as the blended search results are concerned. The company I work for puts a lot of time and effort into ranking for both video and images, so we see a huge amount of traffic from both (it doesn’t convert too well, but I won’t complain about extra free traffic). I have to wonder when more businesses are going to start catching on.

The market for video is wide open, lets face it, us humans like to look at fun, moving stuff rather than boring text. Gaining entry requires a whole new set of skills though, that is the reason why we haven’t explored it at all. However one has to evolve and will definitely be paying close attention to the ins and outs of creating a suitable campaign.